Belal Muhammad believes Leon Edwards is the best combat for him within the welterweight division’s top-five.
Muhammad is about to face Edwards for the welterweight title in the primary occasion of UFC 304 on July 27 in Manchester, England. It’s a rematch of their combat from 2021 which led to a No Contest as a result of an eye fixed poke from Edwards simply 18 seconds into the second spherical.
Since that combat, Muhammad hasn’t misplaced, and he believes he matches up nicely towards Edwards and calls him the best combat for him within the top-five.
Belal Muhammad says Leon Edwards is the best combat within the high 5 👀
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“If I’m being trustworthy, I feel he’s the best man within the high 5, stylistically for myself, he’s breakable. We’ve seen him within the Usman combat, and my mentality is to stroll in there and break him now. I’m going with a special kind of anger now as a result of I hate him a lot, I hate everyone related to him, simply the best way they discuss, the best way they attempt to keep away from it. That’s what pisses me off greater than something,” Belal Muhammad stated to House of Struggle.
“Such as you have been simply on this boat, combat 9 occasions to stand up to the place and also you stated no person’s supplying you with a shot once I get the shot I’m going to vary the division, and also you’re doing the precise reverse. After I see that fakeness after which attempt to play the function of, I’d have overwhelmed him anyway, this and this and you are attempting to downplay all the things I did, once I’ve actually had the toughest path that anyone’s ever needed to get to the place I’m proper now,” Muhammad continued.
Though Belal Muhammad is looking Leon Edwards the best combat within the top-five of the welterweight division for him, the oddsmakers don’t agree. As a substitute, they’ve Edwards as a -250 favourite whereas Muhammad is a +190 underdog, which suggests a 34.5% likelihood of profitable the combat.
To earn the title shot, Muhammad beat Gilbert Burns by choice final Could after a TKO win over Sean Brady.